66 Actual Races in History. 



nite, Necessary and Invisible One, throwing na- 

 tions down in prostrate adoration before a hidden 

 majesty, and inspiring with loftiest speculations the 

 mind of a Plato and a St. Thomas Aquinas. 



74. Out of justice to it, and to all parties, we will 

 mention the last conceit which we condescend to 

 stigmatize in this species of science, unutterable 

 and indescribable. To explain religion, what does 

 it exhibit? A dog. To escape the divine, it hugs 

 the brute. There! look at that dog, quaking at an 

 open parasol, which the wind is just sensibly agitat- 

 ing, as it lies upon the lawn. The dog sees the 

 parasol moving: it does not happen to feel though 

 that it is the wind which causes the motion. Be- 

 tween ourselves, why should it, for the beast is 

 only a brute? So the intelligent creature begins to 

 quake and yelp at the phenomenon, as preternatural; 

 because, says Mr. Darwin, its cause is unknown. 

 Here, says he, here is religion for you — trembling 

 and quaking before the unknown — the preternatural 

 — religion in germ! — the embryo of all that high 

 and sublime knowledge of God, which invites wor- 

 ship and adoration, yes, and fear and holy sacrifice. 

 All this is in an agitated umbrella, and an agitated 

 dog yelping about it! 



75. We feel compelled to pay a tribute of respect 

 to the generation of science which is now in pos- 

 session of the field, and observe of many of our 

 scientific men that the Darwinism, which they still 

 promulgate, is not that of Mr. Darwin. His essay 



